Greetings and Salutations!

The new site is up and ready for action. New features include:

• A much easier to use content management system
• Comment spam protection
• A full featured gallery
• A real message board
• An event manager for tracking players and scores
• Spiffy new graphics

Over the next several weeks, many of the old posts will be migrated over. Unfortunately, migrating all the stories and users from the old Scoop system has proved to be a difficult and non-trivial task, so you’ll probably have to re-register. Once you do, you’ll have access to the post comments, gallery comments and message board.

If you’re looking for content from the old site and don’t see it, email admin [at] venturadiscgolf [daht] com and we’ll see what we can do about bringing it over. The old site content will also be available for a while at scoop.venturadiscgolf.com.

Enjoy the new site, and thanks for visiting VenturaDiscGolf.com!

UPDATE

Well! It appears we have our first major bug. Evidently, IE5/5.5/6 doesn’t handle rendering of .png graphic transparencies. Way to go Microsoft! So, until I work out some kind of graphic/javascript solution, I highly encourage everyone to download and use Firefox, or some other browser from the good folks at the Mozilla project (which includes Mozilla, Netscape, and assorted other browsers using the Gecko engine). Why it is that Microsoft products, with the power of the world’s biggest software shop, can’t make a browser that handles common graphics formats and internet standards that have been around for over 10 years, I can’t explain. Apologies for the mess to all you IE users, I’ll see what I can do to give you a usable header and navigation menu.

Ah! Okay, so, according to this IE Blog, they have PNG transparency support in IE7. So, for all you die-hard IE users out there, until I figure out a fix for this, if you have the ability and desire to upgrade your IE to version 7, it should work. The javascript, that’s another story. Again, I suppose a decade of published internet standards is difficult if you’re not open-source